Protest in London

Go to page

LE

BBC 5 Live has just stated
100 Servicemen(ex?) are protesting in trafalger Square about medical conditions in the forces
I can't find any links
Any idea whats going on?

Good luck to em

We should remember the tremendous contribution of the Queen Mother to the war effort:
As the BBC pointed out, she 'bravely remained in London beside her husband' during the war.
This contrasts sharply with the actions of my grandfather who, on the declaration of war immediately left his wife and children and pissed off, first to France, then North Africa, Italy, France (again) and finally Germany.
The shame will always be with us.

LE

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, a glass of rioja in either hand, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming WOW!!! WHAT A RIDE !!!!!!!!!!!

Swinger

This is really rather interesting. I cannot find a single mention of the hundred servicemen protesting about the appalling lack of medical care available to injured servicemen on any mainstream media/paper/TV or website.

Is there a cover-up going on? I think when servicemen protest in such large numbers in Trafalgar square it might at least get a mention? Has the government gagged the press?

War Hero

This is really rather interesting. I cannot find a single mention of the hundred servicemen protesting about the appalling lack of medical care available to injured servicemen on any mainstream media/paper/TV or website.

Is there a cover-up going on? I think when servicemen protest in such large numbers in Trafalgar square it might at least get a mention? Has the government gagged the press?

Just like the race riots in Hull a few years ago. Gangs of immigrants fighting each other in the streets (by gangs I mean groups of 50 or more).
Didn't even make the local papers.
Now I wonder how that can happen?

ADC

Some very brief coverage in the IoS today (page 22) plus an Agence France Presse photo.

For some reason, I cannot find the online version.

Text as follows:

War veterans go on the attack

Around 100 veterans dressed in military fatigues marched into Trafalgar Square yesterday and erected an "unauthorised" statue of a helmeted soldier with a shattered face.

The former soldiers,some from the war in Iraq, were trying to highlight what they see as government neglect. This includes the closure of military hospitals and general lack of support for those injured while serving their country. Some have had to wait months for treatment of war injuries.

Swinger

Hell I would even forgive Kira Cochrane her misdemeanours if she reported something like this.

I returned from work in tears the other day. I treated an officer who I met in Iraq, full of life and vigour. He was in an IED attack and is such a shadow of his former self- a broken shell of a man. I really fear for him- I am very worried that he might take his own life, such is his frustration and anger at the shabby way that he has been treated by the Army, and the MoD, and in particular the lack of any joined up care for a disabled serviceman discarded by the government as no use for further fighting.

I came home and wept for a brother officer let down so badly. He is a hero. But he is being treated as less than nothing, an inconvenience, a burden on the NHS.

LE

Very sorry to hear that ap8889, what a dogsh!t way to repay someone who has given so much, we fall over ourselves in society trying to hand out freebies to those who have or will not contribute to society (both homegrown scum and foriegn imports) so much money is wasted on wasters, there is then no money left in the kitty for blokes like this

LE

This is really rather interesting. I cannot find a single mention of the hundred servicemen protesting about the appalling lack of medical care available to injured servicemen on any mainstream media/paper/TV or website.

Is there a cover-up going on? I think when servicemen protest in such large numbers in Trafalgar square it might at least get a mention? Has the government gagged the press?

Even with major protests in the Capital be it in Trafalgar Square or Hyde Park you may get a two-minute slot on the fag-end of the national news of the factual occurrence of a demonstration but what you will never, ever hear or see is what any of them actually have to say.

Even if you wanted to have your say by standing on a Soap Box on 'Speaker's Corner', trumpeted throughout the world as a fine example of how this country cherishes freedom of expression, you must first submit an application for permission to Westminster City Council detailing exactly what you intend to say before permission is granted. If you have anything serious to say at all where there is the slightest chance of anyone at all taking your words seriously, then you will find very quickly that permission is denied. If you deviate at all from the script you have submitted, you will quickly be 'moved on' by the Police.

Authoritarian governments, regardless of how they seek to display their 'democratic' pedegree to the world will allow freedom of expression to exist in 'form' rather than substance as long as those who express themselves do so in a vacuum.

"When Plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorises it and a moral code that glorifies it."

LE

The annoying thing is iolis, they didn't take away our freedom overnight by dragging us out and threataining to slot us with a 9mm to the back of the head if we dared oppose our great leader, they took it away, by simply making so many laws and new legislations that nobody could keep up with them.

We have somehow managed to to go down the route of china, a communist country with free trade, the current labour government has done it without a fight, this country is in a sh!t state, and no one seems to realise or care, the average brit is more concerened with the goings on in the big brother house ffs.

LE

War Hero

The annoying thing is iolis, they didn't take away our freedom overnight by dragging us out and threataining to slot us with a 9mm to the back of the head if we dared oppose our great leader, they took it away, by simply making so many laws and new legislations that nobody could keep up with them.

We have somehow managed to to go down the route of china, a communist country with free trade, the current labour government has done it without a fight, this country is in a sh!t state, and no one seems to realise or care, the average brit is more concerened with the goings on in the big brother house ffs.